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I swear you must work for the NSA or some other three letter agency. Please don't come to my house and rape me.Down with China! Up with the West! Um... nukes bad and scary! Mall bombs bad and scary!I promise I won't ever demonstrate outside of a "free speech" zone or without a permit. I'm a good citizen!

I'm sorry for the ad hominem but your only valid argument against preferring a foreign government spying on you, Average Joe, to your own government was the identity theft risk and that seems worth it to me.The rest of your points are frivolous. It doesn't matter if China is a modern Nazi Germany -- the other countries still aren't paragons of excellence either.

And in this case even if you had NoScript installed (which is different from turning Javascript off entirely in your browser) and the main Jamie Oliver website whitelisted you'd still have been protected because what the JS was doing was creating an iframe to another site and loading Flash/Silverlight/Java exploits inside of that.

And note that even with a compromised site where they were able to inject their own JS that they still had to rely on Flash/Silverlight/Java rather than just Javascript to download and run the trojan.So to answer your question: No, Javascript isn't really dangerous. Poorly written browser plugins are.

The war on drugs couldn't even be "won" and that had physical products with high costs and prison sentences.How does anyone possibly think they can stop information, right or wrong, on a system that is designed to facilitate moving information?

It's honestly a waste of time and humanity would be much better served spending the resources/time/money/man hours elsewhere.

In most religions the religion itself defines what behavior is allowed if you're an actual adherent and not just paying lip service to it and so it would very much so be important to many debates even without being the topic of the discussion.Just look at any american discussion of homosexual relationships. You have religion, which is a choice, (or at least religion influenced values) affecting the opinions of people with regards to sexual orientation which is probably not a choice.Though honestly I'm not sure religion is a choice given that there is some research that says that the religion condition is partially tied to genetics.

More on topic: This article seems a bit facile to me (maybe pointless would be a better word.)It might as well say "the way to stop wars would be for everyone to be nice to each other."

People shit talk and harass each other constantly -- online and off. Sometimes in jest, sometimes in anger, sometimes in affection.Shaming people who do any of that to females should also need to shame anyone who does that to anyone and I just don't see that happening.In my opinion the line between offensive harassment and normal behavior is too blurry for it to happen. And I'm not sure if 'shame' is really a healthy tactic culturally.

The best we can do is to try to be the best people we can be and try to influence our kids to not be dicks and hope they become better people than we are.

The definition of male and female can get rather murky when you really start looking at the variety of people out there.There's a reason that the olympics uses testosterone levels and not whatever sexual organs you may (or may not) have.

Granted the pool of astronauts is a lot smaller so it probably doesn't matter that much but it would suck to be that one small 'male' astronaut with a low metabolic rate that wasn't even considered because the astronaut shows up in a database as having a penis.

The worst part is when the repair guy can't even figure out what the problem is.

You would think in a modern world that it would be pretty simple to add some relatively inexpensive sensors to help with diagnostics.I saw one slashdotter replied with a 3rd party vendor for that but I imagine it also comes with a silly monthly fee for monitoring.

I'd mostly be interested in using a smart thermostat for logging.If I can detect HVAC performance problems just once before they lead to a dead system on a deadly hot summer day and an emergency call to a repair guy then it would easily have paid for itself in comfort.

As a developer if you use 3rd party javascript libs (like jquery) it can be really smart to use a popular CDN instead of locally hosting because it decreases load time as it's likely already in the user's cache.Of course it's also smart to load a backup locally hosted version if the CDN version fails.

Skype already leaks your IP anyway (both to active callers and to anyone that requests it as long as they know your username.)It's common knowledge in live streaming that you should hide your skype username when streaming to prevent DoS attacks.

Yeah, median would probably be a better 'average' but I think a heat map in general would be better.

And interestingly enough the map looks very similar to a median household income map.It doesn't show maximum available internet speeds per area or something more interesting like price per megabit in an area.

To me it just shows that poor and/or rural people tend to have slower internet speeds. Big surprise.

Japan seemed to work out alright; South Korea did too. Puerto Rico almost became a state, could still.California and Texas became states though I'm not sure they'd qualify as occupations.

Mexico could be doing better but I wouldn't count it as a hostile nation.I don't think the Philippines is hostile.

More recently Serbia is almost an EU member. I guess there hasn't been as good of a track record post-WW2 given Vietnam and the various Middle Eastern wars.Mostly the US seems to fail at converting strong communist(?) or Islamic countries into friendly nations.